What do people say about your Classic?

Stained Class · 24-09-2011 10:11PM #1

Me?

I've got a Rover P6B (the one with the V8 :cool:)

Like most of us here, sometimes, total strangers can come up to us & pass comment on the cars we drive.

I get.

'I bet she's heavy on petrol'

Or

'Our Doctor used to have one of them'

There's a few others, but you get the drift.

What do random strangers say to you when they see you with your classic?:)

Blue850 · 24-09-2011 10:22PM

Best one I had for the Fiat 850

"My Dad says I was conceived in the back of one of them":D

aujopimur · 25-09-2011 12:24AM

What is it?

Bumpstop · 25-09-2011 05:18AM

Noone ever passes comment on my tr7, they just move away as the rust spreads.:rolleyes:

corktina · 25-09-2011 08:32AM

"My Dad had one the same as that".... (doubtfull!)
or (if I'm in the 3.0S) Ford never made a 3 litre Cortina, must be a fake.

Sids Not · 25-09-2011 12:04PM

...." you could have got a new car for that money"........:rolleyes:

gyppo · 25-09-2011 12:20PM

Whats the tax on that thing?...............

V480 · 25-09-2011 12:40PM

When I had the old Volvo I used to mainly get sniggers and abuse about driving an 'old' car, as opposed to say a 05 or 06 Avensis or something. I remember one particular time I came into work devestated when my car was vandalised during the night. My co-workers thought it was hillarious that I was so upset about it.

Sids Not · 25-09-2011 02:30PM

V480 wrote: »

my car was vandalised during the night. My co-workers thought it was hillarious that I was so upset about it.

MMMM..did you question the activities of your "workmates" then....;)

I always think that people that dont appreciate classics are the same people that would put their parents in a home......

johnos1984 · 25-09-2011 02:40PM

As I like all things British Leyland the best comment I had was from a local mechanic who reckons I'm a masochist

Everyone else is just taking about rust, overheating, breakdowns and lots of whys?

Daved_XB · 25-09-2011 02:47PM

The one I get the most in the Challenger (in fact happened this morning when I was filling her up)

"Is it Diesel??"

johnos1984 · 25-09-2011 02:48PM

Daved_XB wrote: »

The one I get the most in the Challenger (in fact happened this morning when I was filling her up)

"Is it Diesel??"

I'd nearly just agree and tell them she is packing a TDI

Sids Not · 25-09-2011 03:20PM

Restored a Suzuki GT 750 kettle a few years back ..filling it up one day and a guy came over to me ..."jasus thats a lovely bike....12volt is she..?..:rolleyes:

johnf2020 · 25-09-2011 04:04PM

When I got my forst old Renault(15 GTL) the very first show I went to gave me the very first comment

"Jasus your brave". Not what you want to hear on your first outing.

Fuego----"I got my first shag in one of them"!

18 Turbo

"She got you hear ok then",, by the same wanker who said it again and another show. I've yet to see him bring his 900 Turbo that he keeps raving about.

And then there is the guy who keeps popping up at every show---""-I used to have one of them"!,to every car he sees.

carchaeologist · 25-09-2011 06:07PM

Any of the Datsuns, i know its the old cliche but at every show someone will say,
'they were rotten yokes'
'they had great engines but you couldnt keep the body'

About the laurel 200L 'That was a ministers car'

Or my particular favorite from an old mechanic ' They used to rust in the brochures!'

A friend had his 100A at a show one day, a guy waks past with his girlfriend telling her what the cars were and he said, 'Look at the lovely Hillman Imp'

Its always entertaining at shows.:D

Anan1 · 25-09-2011 07:49PM

'Ya tink ye're so coo-el, don't ya!' - roared at a friend of mine in a Pagoda by a young wan on a sunny day.

aidhan · 25-09-2011 07:50PM

When working at a Datsun dealership years ago the Datsuns were brought in for warranty assessment..The service manager trying to play down one particular car (120y) saying "sure it isn't that bad like" Yer man says.. "sure jaysuz you can nearly do the plugs an points without opening the bonnet"

shawnee · 25-09-2011 08:15PM

johnf2020 wrote: »

When I got my forst old Renault(15 GTL) the very first show I went to gave me the very first comment
"Jasus your brave". Not what you want to hear on your first outing.

Fuego----"I got my first shag in one of them"!

18 Turbo
"She got you hear ok then",, by the same wanker who said it again and another show. I've yet to see him bring his 900 Turbo that he keeps raving about.

And then there is the guy who keeps popping up at every show---""-I used to have one of them"!,to every car he sees.

The most common question on my 280ce is "how much would one of them be worth now " to which I usually reply , "whatever one pays for one"

Leaves em scratching their head and none the wiser !;)

25-09-2011 08:47PM

have a E30 and well once i heard somebody shout " i love your fecking car"

also people ask me how she like on petrol !

mamakevf · 25-09-2011 11:25PM

What I usually hear is ' There's not many of them left'.

One chap at a show said ' Ye completely ruined the car putting those alloys on it' followed by ' are ye selling it?'

Big Nasty · 26-09-2011 09:07AM

'Must of cost ya a fiver just getting her outta the garage!'

Dades · 26-09-2011 10:52AM

From a mate of mine:

"Congratulations on buying the ugliest Porsche ever made."

101sean · 26-09-2011 11:02AM

"is it armoured/amphibious"
"is it heavy on juice" (12-14mpg)
"why don't you put a diesel in it?" :mad:
"where did you get it?"

PulpitNeil · 26-09-2011 12:11PM

"My grandad had one of them when I was young."
"My dad had one of them when I was young."
"I had one of them when I was young."
"Smashing car, they go forever."

It's a Morris Minor.

Then of course there's people assuming it's heavy on petrol, difficult to get through the NCT (!), expensive to tax (!) and unreliable. Ah well, let them think what they like. I'm happy in the knowledge that any money I spend restoring/repairing/improving her is less than they're losing in depreciation in their modern cars.

no1beemerfan · 26-09-2011 12:11PM

aujopimur wrote: »

What is it?

Thats what I get a lot. Also mine is black but kept well polished and one fella asked me what black was it 'cause he'd never seen a car so black before :pac:.

Justjens · 26-09-2011 12:32PM

"Hope it rains!" Fecking eejits were sitting on a fence, like most louts, loitering outside! Don't think irony is in their vocabulary.

"OMG!" once, not sure if it was because of the grey haired git in a nice car, or the car, I favour the latter!!

Both while in my TR4A.

Redrocket · 26-09-2011 01:06PM

Whenever I park my Dino at the local coffee shop I enjoy sitting back to hear lots of "wows", "awesomes" and such compliments, sometimes when I'm bored I park it badly then it all quickly changes to stuff like "This rich a-hole cant even park" much to my amusement

corktina · 26-09-2011 02:04PM

Aguy once asked if my Corsair was two-cylinder (it was a V4 and he was looking at one side of the engine.... :-)

Thinkingaboutit · 27-09-2011 03:50PM

Wolseley 16/60 so people mention remembering people who had them, one remembers an old lad who towed a horsebox with one.

Best is from my Dad whose brother, a building contractor, who bought one new in green. It was been driven in Dublin city centre by one of his friends with him and others some time afterwards, who had a little too much drink taken, and therefore got confused, or somehow decided to ignore lights, whereupon going through one junction was struck by a taxi and turned over. No injuries except to the car, which after a poor enough repair, had to be scrapped as it didn't drive right.

Most comment are in the 'nice car' range.

JoeySully · 27-09-2011 05:25PM

Recently I was asked "Where do you put the coffin in ? "

Ohh how original :P

chevyv8 · 27-09-2011 08:17PM

is that a general lee, gobshi*es cant see the difference in a black car with white stripes and an orange car with a rebel flag.....

What do people say about your Classic?

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